Tim Sweezy
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A former NASA engineer turned YouTuber has found a round-a-bout way to give people the opportunity to snap a selfie of themselves from space. The satellite will also send an alert to a person when it is above their location on Earth, making it possible to photobomb themselves in their own selfie from space.
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European space companies Airbus, Thales, and Leonardo have joined forces to take on Elon Musk’s Starlink in the growing space-based internet race. Until the recent announcement of the joint venture, named Project Bromo, the satellite makers had only hinted that they were looking at working with one...
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Turn up the savings this Cyber Monday on great deals from Bose and SoundBoks. Give the gift of incredible sound, while saving up to 30% on soundbars and portable speakers.
Bose TV Speaker - Soundbar
The holidays are a perfect time to gather family and friends together for movie nights, and Bose has a great deal...
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Researchers from the Curtain node of the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have tracked down a possible explanation for the rare astrophysical event known as long-period radio transients. Associate Professor Natasha Hurley-Walker, and Csanad Horvath, an undergraduate student at the time...
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Now is the time to stock up on storage, with deals up to 53% off from Samsung, Crucial, and others. No matter if one needs internal, or external storage, there is a Cyber Monday deal to be had.
Samsung 990 EVO SSD
Cyber Monday deals are already here, and the Samsung 990 EVO SSD leads the way. The drive offers...
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Now is a great time to grab the Apple lover on your holiday shopping list a MacBook or iPad as Black Friday deals continue through the weekend, and a few Cyber Monday deals make an early debut.
2024 MacBook Air 13-inch (M3)
The 13-inch MacBook Air is a favorite among many college students and business travelers...
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Who doesn’t associate the roaring, and crackling sound of rocket engines with Christmas these days? For those who may, or may not, NASA wants to kick off the Christmas season with a warm and cozy 8 hour 4K fireplace video. The space agency does point out that technically the fireplace packs the heat of the SLS...
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Black Friday deals are coming in hot and heavy, and Amazon has more than a few deals to choose from. FInd great discounts on iPads, wireless headphones, and a Samsung tablet while the deals are smoking HOT.
Apple iPad (10th Gen)
The Apple iPad (10th Gen) 10.9-inch tablet makes a great gift for the Apple lover on...
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Tis the season for giving, and there is no better gift for the techie in one’s life than more ports, right? If you agree, then check out these Black Friday deals on docking stations from brands like Plugable, Sabrent, and OWC that we've rounded up.
Plugable Thunderbolt 4 Dock
The Plugable Quad Display Dock for...
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After a couple of recent social media posts, which claimed Microsoft was training AI on user’s Word and Excel data sent users into a frenzy, Microsoft has responded. According to the software giant, it was all just a big misunderstanding, much like an incident with Adobe earlier this year.
One of the first claims...
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The holiday shopping season is upon us, and Bose, Sony, and Beats have all slashed prices on headphones in a symphony of Black Friday savings.
Bose QuietComfort
The Bose QuietComfort wireless headphones with active noise cancelling is a solid choice for anyone looking for a quality headset with stellar audio. The...
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Jupiter is well-known for its Great Red Spot, but astronomers have recently discovered equally large spots at the giant gas planet’s north and south poles that appear and disappear at random. The dark UV ovals were first spotted by NASA’s Hubble spacecraft in the late 1990s, but have only recently been studied in...
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OnePlus Pad 2: Currently 13% off for $479.99 (MSRP: $549.99) The OnePlus Pad 2 is a worthwhile successor to the original, which offers plenty of performance and a vibrant 12.1" display at a more affordable price point than the competition. Premium Build Quality Bright, Vibrant 3K display All Day Battery Life Excellent Performance,...
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Microsoft has announced that it will be removing the Xbox Avatar Editor app from Xbox consoles and PC. The move means users will no longer be able to access Xbox Avatars, or any of their purchased items, starting January 9, 2025.
Microsoft first debuted the Avatar app in 2018, launching the new editor app on Xbox...
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A new image of the Sombrero galaxy from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has astronomers taking their hats off in place of a cosmic bullseye. The galaxy, known as Messier 104 (M104), was discovered in 1781 by French astronomer and comet hunter Pierre Mechain, one of Charles Messier’s colleagues.
In Webb’s image of...
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Scientists are constantly on the lookout for ways to slow down climate change, such as one study that devised a $200 trillion diamond dust umbrella for Earth. They are also seeking all the possible contributors to climate change, which even includes belching cows (seriously). Now, a new study finds humans tilted the...
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With the holiday shopping season in full swing, it is time to draw the line on spending. We showed you how to do that with some great deals on streaming hardware from Corsair and Elgato, and now we've rounded up bargains on drawing tablets from Wacom, XPPen, and others that are up to 50% off as Black Friday...
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NASA’s Curiosity rover is wrapping up its time in the Mars Gediz Vallis channel, and is making its way to an area of the Martian surface referred as the Boxwork. The Boxwork feature was first viewed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) in 2006, and looks like spiderwebs stretching across the Martian...
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Microsoft has released its controversial Windows 11 Recall feature for Copilot+ PC owners, in preview form. The news comes after the tech giant announced earlier this month that it was delaying the release of Recall in order to “refine the experience” ahead of the preview release.
For those who may not be familiar...
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WhatsApp just received a long overdue messaging transcript feature. Incidentally, Apple introduced a similar feature along with iOS 17 during last year’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference, so it's nice to see WhatsApp close the gap.
The company touts the new feature as coming in handy when on the move or in a loud...
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Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) took the first close-up image of a dying star outside of the Milky Way. The newly imaged star, WH G64, is located within the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the smaller galaxies that orbit the Milky Way.
While the...
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The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Solar Orbiter grabbed the highest-resolution full views of the Sun’s visible surface to date. The images were assembled using observations from the spacecraft’s PHI and EUI instruments on March 22, 2023.
The observations used to stitch together the new high-resolution images were...
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